How fitting that I began this at the incipient period of Spring. Admittedly, my first was shortly after Thanksgiving; However, I'm pretty sure this was just my recognition of the onrushing s.a.d. doldrums - as well as an implicit personal promise for eventual renewal. In any event, spring is here so no more doomsday talk.

Beware the Ides of March

Today is the ides of March, a festival day for honoring the God, Mars. Also, on this day in 44 b.c., Caesar was assassinated after failing to heed the prognostications of a soothsayer. Or at least that's what Shakespeare wanted us to think. I will be leaving for Jamaica in less than 30 hours. Hopefully I will avoid both the knives which did in the great dictator perpetuo, as well as the overindulgence of lascivious wassails which did in his headstrong scion, Marc Antony.

Jon gives you cancer

Celestial Webcams

"LSST is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore it. The 8.4-metre LSST telescope and the 3-gigapixel camera are thus a shared resource for all humanity — the ultimate network peripheral device to explore the universe."

Bill Gates -Microsoft co-founder.

Between this and the soon to be launched Kepler orbital telescope we're sure to find all those puny aliens out there, wallowing in their pre-modern technologies. Also, I'm glad to see that Micro$oft is putting their earnings to good use (with Paul Allen responsible for the neccesary funding for a 350 antenna telescope array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in California).

Hurtling throught the universe

I like the transition from the contented "ahhh." to "AHHHH!!!"

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had, known, I should have become a watchmaker."
-Albert Einstein